Hudson, Dominic

Srinakaew, Sarawuth

Taunton, Dominic

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A Study of Resistance of High-Speed Catamarans and Scale Effects on Form Factor Sarawuth Srinakaew, Dominic J. Taunton, Dominic A. Hudson Fluid Structure Interactions Group, University of Southampton ss17e111@soton.ac.uk 1 Introduction Resistance of catamaran is one of the most important aspects of Naval Architecture, Marine, Offshore and Ocean Engineering. There are various works from previous researches dealing with this challenge. Since catamarans have been introduced, resistance components have been evaluated by focusing on many aspects such as hull form, speed (Fn), hull separation to length ratio (S/L). Many methods to estimate resistance were also proposed such as direct measurement from model and full scale, theoretical mathematical model, potential flow, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). However, resistance prediction of catamarans requires more details to overcome all resistance characteristics to achieve the most suitable design. Resistance of full scale ship is highly relied on two main extrapolation methods following Froude (1872) and Hughes (1954) and this approach is adopted by International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC).  Garofallidis (1996) and Bruzzone et al. (1997) conducted a series of experiment to investigate the scale effect on form factor; however, their results showed undesirable expectation where results are affected by turbulence due to tank interference rather than Reynolds’ number. Rather than experimental study, CFD approach is also capable to investigate the scale effect on form factor. Kasahara and Masuda (1998) investigated the flow around ship using CFD at different model scales and found that form factor increase with Reynolds number for large models. ITTC Resistance Committee (1996) suggested that Reynolds number plays an important role in varying form factor. ITTC 2002 also suggested that the scale effect on form factor might be affected by friction correlation line. Tokyo Workshop was summarised by Hino (2005) that form factor of KVLCC2 was also increase with Reynolds number experiments. Kouh et al. (2009) used CFD code to study scale effect on form factor by focusing on doubling model scales. They pointed out that the total resistance trend is to decrease relative to increasing Reynolds number when doubling model size, which showed a near linear and increasing dependence, reflected a realistic Reynolds number dependence. Raven et al. (2008) investigated scale effect of model and full-scale resistance of KVLCC2 using PARNASSOS CFD code. They focused on the scale effect by looking at the viscous and wave resistance components. Form factor is significantly high comparing with model tests, which could result in increasing ship viscous resistance. Broglia et al (2011) investigated the interference effects of the Delft 372 high-speed catamaran. CFD was used as a support tool in this investigation. The main focus of this work was to investigate the flow interference phenomena between demihulls by looking at dependence of Reynolds’ number. Geosim method was used to simulate the flow at Re between 106 and 108 for two Froude numbers (0.3 and 0.45). Following these papers, this study investigates catamaran resistance and how scale affects form factor. This paper presents the resistance prediction and scale effects on form factor of Wigley hull by focusing on doubling model scale using CFD application: STAR CCM+ with Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes Equations (RANS). Models are investigated at Froude number between 0.15 and 0.9. The results validated against experiment retrieved from Insel (1990).  2 Catamaran Resistance  The standard ITTC practice purpose is to break down total resistance into viscous resistance and wave resistance dependent on Reynolds’ number (Re) and Froude number (Fn) respectively. CT(Fn, Re) = CV(Re) + CW(Fn) = (1+k)CF(Re) + CW(Fn)     (1) Resistance components of catamarans are also broken down in the same way. However, the total resistance of catamaran is different from monohull due to the interference between demihulls. Normally, there are two types of interference including viscous resistance interference and wave resistance interference. To make the breakdown of catamaran resistance components more straightforward, Insel (1990) summarised the resistance components using equation (1) as:  CTcat = (1+kcat)CFcat + CWcat           = (1+ϕk) σCF + τCW (2) Where, σ is a frictional resistance interference, ϕ a is form resistance interference factor, and τ is a wave resistance interference factor. In this approach, ϕ is taken into account due to the effects of pressure field change around demihulls caused by flow interference. ϕ and σ can be combined together and written as (1+ϕk)σ = (1+βk). It can be seen here (1+k) is called form factor and β is viscous resistance interference factor. 3 Numerical Wave Tank, Grid dependence and Turbulence Models Study 3.1 Numerical Wave Tank The numerical wave tank study focuses on how to create waves correctly. STAR CCM+ v 8.04 tutorial suggests that at least 20 cells per wave height and higher for short waves are recommended. Windén (2012) also suggested that cell per wave height is between 30 and 40. To minimize the number of conditions investigated, only cell per wave height will be investigated while cells per wavelength are kept as recommendation by STAR CCM+ tutorial. The wave used in the grid dependency study has the following specifications: λ = 4m, H = 0.04m and T = 1.60s.  It can be seen from figure 1 that number of cells per wave height should be between 30 and 40.  Fig. 1: Number of cells per wave height 3.2 Grid dependence and Turbulence Models Study The domain front boundary is set to be 3L from bow and outlet is located 9L from stern. Symmetry plane is also used to avoid a very large domain and number of cells. Total grids are investigated as recommended by many researchers especially in Gothenburg workshop 2010. The most suitable number of cells should be in the millions of cells depending on hull geometry and flow characteristics. For example, Zou and Larsson (2010) pointed out that number of cells should be between 2.97M and 4.37M cells. Wood (2011) also used low cell numbers which is about 1.8M to 2.5M cells. Windén (2003) investigated force on a fixed Wigley hull in waves and pointed out that the final mesh contained 7 million cells. Wigley hull particulars are shown in table 1. The number of cells for grid dependency study starts from 2M to 6M cells, see table 2. To minimize run time, turbulence models are also investigated simultaneously. Two turbulence models are k-ε and SST k-ω. Fig. 4 and 5 show that the optimal number of cells should be between 5M and 6M cells. Final conclusion shows that SST  model provides better results than  model. Table 1: Wigley hull particulars Model Wigley III L, m 1.80 L/B 10.00 B/T 1.60 L/  7.116 CB 0.444 WS, m2 0.482    Fig. 2: Grid generation Fig. 3: Grid generation around the hull Table 2: Grids and turbulence models Grid Cells (M) CT (x 10-3) k-ε % Error SST k-ω % Error Fn = 0.35      Experiment  5.495    G1 ~ 2.0 5.124 -6.76 5.246 -4.53 G2 ~ 3.0 5.346  -2.71 5.381 -2.07             G3 ~ 4.0 5.413 -1.49 5.433  -1.12 G4 ~ 5.0 5.447 -0.87 5.462 -0.60 G5 ~ 6.0 5.448 -0.85 5.467   -0.51     Fig. 4: Total resistance against number of cells (millions) Fig. 5: Wave elevation along the hull 4 Scale effects on form factor Three different scales of S/L=0.3 configuration are investigated here as seen in table 4. These scale ratios (λ) are selected because dimension of the hulls is not changed rapidly which will result in big tank side and mesh problem. To ensure that the larger models are scaled up correctly, wetted surface area and CB are evaluated which can be seen in table 3. The wetted surface area and CB differences are small and less than 1%. Table 3: Model-scale verification Model λ CFD (m2) *λ2 (m2) %Error CB,CFD %Error Model 1 0.482 0.482 0.041 0.4452 0.227 2L 2 1.922 1.928 -0.332 0.4438 -0.045 4L 4 7.752 7.712 0.519 0.4446 0.141   Fig. 6: CT, CF and CV of catamaran S/L 0.3 Fig. 7: CR and CW of catamaran S/L 0.3   Fig. 8: CT, CF and of catamaran S/L 0.3 λ=2 Fig. 9: CR and CW s of catamaran S/L 0.3 λ=2   Fig. 10: CT, CF and of catamaran S/L 0.3 λ=4 Fig. 11: CR and CW s of catamaran S/L 0.3 λ=4   Fig. 12: Model-scale extrapolation: CFD Fig. 13: Form factor at different model sclaes   Fig. 14: Wave elevation along the hull (inboard) for different model scale at Fn 0.35 Fig. 15: Wave elevation along the hull (outboard) for different model scale at Fn 0.35 Resistance components of catamaran with S/L=0.3 are evaluated and validated against experimental data. Models are fixed with no sinkage and trim. All resistance components show a good agreement with experiments. Scale effect on form factor is also investigated for S/L 0.3 with scales λ = 2 and 4. The model scales are increased by doubling model size as seen in table 3. For the scaling up model cases, domain dimensions are also doubling in size. To validate the results, Froude and Hughes approaches are used to find the reference data for Geosim series. Double-model method is also used in this study to estimate viscous resistance. Resistance components of Geosim series show quite good agreement with Froude and Hughes approaches. Wave cut along the hull also shows a good agreement with experiment for Fn 0.35. The average form factors of model scale are 1.22 and 1.16 when applying Hughes approach and experiment respectively, and increase with Reynolds’ number. 5 Conclusion The investigation begins with numerical wave tank study with focuses on how number of cell per wave height affects the accuracy in simulating flow field around the hull. The results show that number of cell per wave height is between 30 and 40 cells. It should be noted that only cells per wave height is investigated; however, the results show a fairly good agreement with experiments, see fig.5, 14 and 15. Resistance components of catamaran with S/L=0.3 are estimated using CFD and show a good agreement with experiment. It can be concluded that CFD application with RANS equations is capable of investigating resistance of ship.  Three model scales are created by using 3D scale. In order to assess the accuracy, some hull characteristics are assessed including block coefficient and wetted surface area. To scale up the models, it should be noted that mesh techniques are different for each model size. Although size of the ship and domain increase, water particle size is not changed. It can be seen that boundary layers of bigger models are much thinner than smaller models. This means that the bigger models require more mesh refinements. Some areas also need more refinements especially the separation between demihulls. To minimize these issues, this study increases model size by doubling model size with small change.  The scale effects on form factor are investigated. The results exhibit that form factor (1+k) increases with Reynolds number (Re) when scaling up the model which agrees with the literature. Three model scales show that form factor (1+k) has a peak value at Froude numbers between 0.3 and 0.5. To ensure that these results are acceptable, wave cuts along the hull are also made. Wave cuts at Fn 0.35 exhibit an acceptable agreement with experiment; however is slightly high for the biggest model as shown in fig. 14 and 15. The differences between experimental data and CFD might be from the measurement techniques as Insel (1990) used a high-speed camera to capture the wave elevation, and the hull was marked at bow and stern at 5 mm draught. Thus, the differences between the experiment and CFD might be from this data interpretation technique. However, a ship without transom stern is not realistic for this type of applications. Future works which are now under investigation are NPL hull with transom stern. Some areas are being investigated including interference effects, transom drag and scale effects on form factor.      Acknowledgements Author would like to express his gratitude to all people who always give supports throughout this research especially the team from CD-adapco: the Steve Portal. References D. Bruzzone, P. Cassella, S. Miranda, C. Pensa, and I. Zotti, (1997). The form factor by means of multiple geosim model tests. Paper presented at the Proceedings of NAV. D.A. Garofallidis, (1996). Experimental and numerical investigation of the flow around a ship model at various Froude numbers. Part II: uncertainty analysis for measurements. 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